Motivational Speaker and author Paul Scanlon (born: 1957) has observed, citing research finding, that as many as 80 per cent of people are unhappy at work, adding that a bigger problem than unemployment is misemployment. Disenchanted in life and clueless about what befalls them in days and years ahead, destiny, sometimes referred to as fate…

Literacy in the country is reported to be increasing year after year. In one of the States, it is claimed to be 100 per cent, where virtually no one can be found without reading one daily or the other, including all types of periodicals in English language too, not to forget that there is no…

Different generations, social groups, ethnic identities, diverse cultures and various regions are marked with food fads, portraying trends or craze in many forms of collective behaviour that develops over time, often changing as time passes. Social anthropologists should be able to throw light on factors that have a direct bearing on the issue of food…

Pundits often take fascination to prescribe ground rules to the Government of the day to be adhered in order to provide good governance so that even the land’s last citizen feels happy, his or her minimum aspiration is to keep the belly reasonably full while living in comfort with a roof over head. The prescription…

The land’s mass of people, currently estimated to be 1,400 million, with their social backgrounds, economic disparity, opinions hard to change, food habits, languages, education levels, health/illness status, awareness of their role in safeguarding the country’s integrity at very low levels, public behaviour and not to forget their utter disregard to the land’s laws, all…

A number of issues deriving from the country’s time-honoured system have been debated in various circles, mostly in fits and jerks, leaving the system to endure itself like the Rock of Gibraltar as it were. Education being in the concurrent list of the Nation’s Constitution, the 36 States and Union Territories have been making mostly…

Life insurance, Health insurance, Motor vehicle insurance, General insurance and whatever, have turned from service to business in our times. The agencies offering one or the other of these assurances of bailing out their policy-holders in case of normal life going off track are merrily raising their rates of premium which are there for all…

Succession, the mammoth-sized computers, requiring space in large rooms, shrank to first pocket-size and then to hand-held calculators. It didn’t long for the desk top computers to be used in storage of data (both figures and words), sending mails to any destination across the world in a matter of seconds, virtually reaching the target recipients…

Multi-column headlines of many widely circulated dailies may or may not have choked the readers, taking in their strides reports of the country’s economic slowdown, abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution, action by the sleuths of the Central Government’s ED (Enforcement Directorate) questioning political heavy-weights, nature’s fury causing unprecedented disaster affecting people in unmanageable…

Floods in some regions of the country caused by both untimely and more-than-normal rainfall for two consecutive years have taken their toll of devastation, washing away dwellings of lakhs of people, causing landslides resulting in disappearance of bridges as well as stretches of highways connecting cities, submerging fields rendering loss of standing crops and uprooting…